Dissertatione_Prof.Lay_Vuthy(101-150)
101. Ideally, the research participant's identity is not known to the researcher. This is called:
Anonymity
Confidentiality
Deception
Desensitizing
102. Research participants must give what before they can participate in a study?:
Guidelines
Commitment
Informed consent
Private information
103. Which scale is the simplest form of measurement?:
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
104. Which of these is not a method of data collection:
Questionnaires
Interviews
Experiments
Observations
105. Secondary/existing data may include which of the following?:
Official documents
Personal documents
Archived research data
All of the answers in this question
106. Which one of the following is of a method of data collection:
Questionnaires
Interviews
Secondary data
all of the answers in this question
107. A census taker often collects data through which of the following?:
Standardized tests
Interviews
Secondary data
Observations
108. A baseline:
Is used as the standard against which change induced by the treatment is assessed
Is the occurrence of a response in its freely occurring or natural state
Is first obtained prior to the administration of a treatment
All of the answers in this question
109. Which of the following is characteristic of qualitative research?
Generalization to the population
Random sampling
Unique case orientation
Standardized tests and measures
110. The type of qualitative research that describes the culture of a group of people is called:
Phenomenology
Grounded theory
Ethnography
Case study
111. Which of the following does not apply to qualitative research?:
Data are often words and pictures
Uses the inductive scientific method
Ends with a statistical report
Involves direct and personal contact with participants
112. The following is a step in the process of historical research?:
Identifying a research topic and formulation of the research problem or question
Data synthesis
Data collection and/or literature review
All of the answers in this question
113. Which of the following is a weakness of quantitative research?:
Provides precise, numerical data
The researcher’s categories that are used might not reflect local constituencies’ understandings
Testing hypotheses that are constructed before the data are collected
Can study a large number of people
114. Which of the following is a weakness of qualitative research?:
The results are more easily influenced by the researcher’s personal idiosyncrasies
Data are based on the participant’s own categories of meaning
Can determine idiographic causation
Useful for describing complex phenomena
115. Complete this sentence. A hypothesis is:
Statement of the aims of an investigation.
Statement which serves as the basis for further investigation.
The methodical evaluation of research evidence
All of these.
116. Complete this sentence. Confounding variables are a problem in:
Experimental studies.
Correlational studies.
Longitudinal studies.
All answers
117. ---------is a statistical index which describes the degree and direction of the relationship between two characteristics or variables:
Mean
T-test
Correlation
Probability
118. Content analysis uses which of the below methods?:
Counting
Classifying
Recording
All answers
119. What purpose do clearly stated aims serve?:
Aims state clearly how the research will be done and what conclusions are expected.
Aims state clearly what the research intends to contribute and justifies the research being carried out
Aims state clearly what the research intends to contribute and details how the research will be done.
Aims state clearly in detail how research will be done and justify why research is being carried out.
120. What is the main advantage of producing a written research proposal?:
Helps the institution
Helps keep people employed
Informs all interested parties
Help with credibility
121. All of these may appear in a research proposal, but which one will ALWAYS appear?:
Creative objective
Research objective
Marketing objective
Business objective
122. The timing section of a proposal will NOT include:
Progress report dates
Deadlines for submitting the final report
Guidelines on ethics
Deadlines for ending data collection.
123. Good research proposal will always:
Focus on addressing the research objective
Consider all possible research that hard previously been done on the topic
Provide respondent names and addresses
Focus on the Harvard style
124. The proposal’s literature review is important because:
It looks authoritative.
The tutor insists upon it.
It is expected by university
It shows that you are knowledgeable about the literature that relates to your research topic.
125. Which ONE of these is best avoided in a proposal?:
Short, clear sentences
Accurate spelling and grammar.
Careful use of correct gender terms.
Jargon.
126. The final research report is NOT:
Tangible evidence of a research project.
Basis for decision-making.
Research proposal
Future secondary data
127. What helps to agree timing, agree resource allocation and also draws boundaries?:
The final report.
The questionnaire.
The proposal.
The observation form.
128. What is an example of a subject variable?:
Sex
Religion
Race
All of the these
129. The concept of 'variables':
Has always been used in psychology.
Is derived from statistics.
Is derived from physics.
Is derived from biology.
130. Which of the following are the most similar?:
Nominal, ratio, and interval data
Ordinal, interval and ratio data
Nominal and ratio data
Nominal, ordinal and ratio data
131. What sort of data are post codes (zip codes)?:
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
132. What sort of data is income?:
Nominal
Interval
Ordinal
Ratio
133. What sort of variable is dress size?:
Dependent
Ordinal
Ratio
Nominal
134. Complete the following sentence. All else being equal, it is more likely results will be statistically significant if:
You have a representative sample.
You have a larger sample.
You use random sampling.
All of these
135. When is a single case experimental study the most useful?:
When studying behaviour change.
When you are studying yourself.
When research requires a substantial sample to be worthwhile or effective.
When a participant has a rare condition.
136. The difference between a convenience sample and a representative sample is:
Convenience sample limits the participants to the population of interest.
The size - a representative sample is bigger.
The availability - a convenience sample is easier for the researcher to approach.
The convenience sampling selects participants randomly and a representative sample does not.
137. A study is conducted in which participants are recruited from local sixth form colleges in the north-east of the UK. The study takes place on a Tuesday so only those in college on that day take part. What sort of sample is this?:
Random sample.
Representative sample.
Convenience sample.
None of these
138. Which of the following statements is true of the relationship between sample sizes and effect sizes?:
The effect size and sample size have no relationship.
The bigger the difference, the bigger the sample size.
Smaller effect sizes are more likely to be significant with smaller sample sizes.
The bigger the effect, the bigger the sample size
139. A correlation of or around zero can be interpreted as which of the following?:
Curvilinear relationship is present.
Linear relationship is present.
No relationship is present.
It could mean either no relationship or a curvilinear one.
140. Which of the following show the proportion of variance shared between two variables?:
Correlation.
Standard error.
Co-efficient of determination.
Attenuation.
141. Quantitative data refers to:
Statistical analysis
Any data you present in your report.
Numerical data that could usefully be quantified to help your research question and to meet your objectives
Graphs and tables.
142. Computers are useful for quantitative data analysis because:
They are fun to use
They are so powerful
They enable easy calculation for those of us not too good with figures.
Increasingly data analysis software contain algorithms that check the data for obvious errors as it is entered.
143. What does 'sampling cases' mean?:
Sampling using a sampling frame
Identifying people who are suitable for research
Literally, the researcher's brief-case
Sampling people, newspapers, television programmes etc.
144. Why is data analysis concerned with data reduction?:
Because far too much data is collected than is required
Because we need to make sense of the data(ដោយសារតែយើងត្រូវយល់ពីទិន្នន័យ)
Because of the repetitions in answers to questionnaires
Because the sample size has been exceeded
145. What is dissertation is ?:
An original piece of work to demonstrate your ability to research and learn independently.
An academic assignment prepared by undergraduate, post-graduate and a part of their final year course.
Final year project, as a form of assessment differs from other module assessments.
The longest piece of academic paper that you have to submit in the final year of your post graduation for acquiring the degree. It is a detailed research related to your area of study.
All are corrects
146. For writing a dissertation you need?:
To conduct research
To analyze and evaluate the information critically
To discuss the underlying concepts along with future scope of the study
All are corrects
147. Demonstrating understanding typically takes place in the following sections of a dissertation?:
The literature review
The methodology
Data analysis
Conclusions and recommendations
All are corrects
148. In a completed dissertation, analysis would be displayed(described) in several areas?:
The problem statement and aims
The literature review
The methodology
Conclusions and recommendations
All are corrects
149. The main skills being tested in a dissertation are?:
Knowledge and understanding
Critique and analysis
Synthesis and creativity
Svaluation
All are corrects
150. Which of the following requirements for a dissertation may depend on your institution?:
Whether an abstract should be included
The format for referencing
The word limit
All of the above
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